Reid: Small steps on sequester

1/29/13 3:27 PM EST

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that he prefers to deal with sequestration in a series of steps.

"What we think would be a better effort would be to move forward and, on short increments, to pay for the sequestration," Reid told reporters in the Capitol.

“There are many low-hanging pieces of fruit out there that Republicans have said they agreed on previously. I'm not going to go into detail, but one of them, of course, is to deal with oil companies," he said, adding that he wants any sequester-avoidance deal to include revenue.